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Very true. And we know how difficult it is - and how long it takes - to recover from shitty trades involving first round picks and giving big contracts to undeserving players.
Oakland Raiders fire Dennis Allen
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Holmgren confirms Oakland visit, doesn’t rule out coaching Raiders
Posted by Mike Florio on October 6, 2014, 1:15 PM EDT
On Sunday, we reported that former Packers and Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren visited the Raiders last week, and that he could end up being the next coach of the team. Appearing Monday on KJR radio’s Mitch in the Morning show in Seattle, Holmgren confirmed both aspects of the report.
“Yeah, I did go down there,” Holmgren told Mitch Levy. “A couple of years ago, I had met with [owner] Mark [Davis] about possibly working with the Raiders, and it didn’t work out. . . . And [G.M.] Reggie McKenzie did work with me in Green Bay for many, many years. So I do have a relationship with him, those are all true. So they phoned me up, I went down there for a day and looked at some film. They had the bye after the London game. And just to float some ideas, and get another opinion of the team and what was going on. No jobs were discussed. Nothing like that, it was more just a pop in and pop out, and that’s what I did.”
No jobs were discussed last week, but the fact that they called upon Holmgren to visit the team in the aftermath of the firing of coach Dennis Allen shows that the organization holds Holmgren in a certain type of esteem. When asked by host Levy whether Holmgren definitely won’t be the coach of the Raiders, Holmgren was far from unequivocal.
“Well, you know what?” Holmgren said. “Now we’re gonna start something else again.”
He then measured his words carefully: “Probably not. Probably not.”
Which also means possibly so.
Asked generally about the possibility of coaching any team, the 66-year-old Holmgren likewise didn’t slam the door.
“Every once in a while, you get a phone call or some little itch there,” Holmgren said. “And I don’t know if that’ll ever go away.”
The Raiders may not ultimately be Holmgren’s only Bay Area option. If/when Jim Harbaugh leaves the 49ers, Holmgren could be interested in returning to his hometown as coach of the franchise where he rose to prominence as an offensive coordinator. However, the 49ers would have to also be interested in him, which may be unlikely.
Either outcome isn’t likely, but it’s clear that Holmgren remains in play — at least a little bit — to return to coaching.
Posted by Mike Florio on October 6, 2014, 1:15 PM EDT
On Sunday, we reported that former Packers and Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren visited the Raiders last week, and that he could end up being the next coach of the team. Appearing Monday on KJR radio’s Mitch in the Morning show in Seattle, Holmgren confirmed both aspects of the report.
“Yeah, I did go down there,” Holmgren told Mitch Levy. “A couple of years ago, I had met with [owner] Mark [Davis] about possibly working with the Raiders, and it didn’t work out. . . . And [G.M.] Reggie McKenzie did work with me in Green Bay for many, many years. So I do have a relationship with him, those are all true. So they phoned me up, I went down there for a day and looked at some film. They had the bye after the London game. And just to float some ideas, and get another opinion of the team and what was going on. No jobs were discussed. Nothing like that, it was more just a pop in and pop out, and that’s what I did.”
No jobs were discussed last week, but the fact that they called upon Holmgren to visit the team in the aftermath of the firing of coach Dennis Allen shows that the organization holds Holmgren in a certain type of esteem. When asked by host Levy whether Holmgren definitely won’t be the coach of the Raiders, Holmgren was far from unequivocal.
“Well, you know what?” Holmgren said. “Now we’re gonna start something else again.”
He then measured his words carefully: “Probably not. Probably not.”
Which also means possibly so.
Asked generally about the possibility of coaching any team, the 66-year-old Holmgren likewise didn’t slam the door.
“Every once in a while, you get a phone call or some little itch there,” Holmgren said. “And I don’t know if that’ll ever go away.”
The Raiders may not ultimately be Holmgren’s only Bay Area option. If/when Jim Harbaugh leaves the 49ers, Holmgren could be interested in returning to his hometown as coach of the franchise where he rose to prominence as an offensive coordinator. However, the 49ers would have to also be interested in him, which may be unlikely.
Either outcome isn’t likely, but it’s clear that Holmgren remains in play — at least a little bit — to return to coaching.
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Tony Sparano buries ball in attempt to bury 0-4 start
Posted by Josh Alper on October 7, 2014, 7:46 AM EDT
In 2001, Patriots coach Bill Belichick buried a ball after a 1-3 start in an attempt to get his players to focus on the future rather than the past.
The Pats would lose two more games that year and win the Super Bowl. Jets coach Rex Ryan stole the bit in 2010 after a blowout loss to Belichick’s Patriots and the Jets went on to beat the Pats in New England in the playoffs on their way to the AFC Championship Game.
Raiders interim coach Tony Sparano hopes lightning strikes thrice. A video from NFL Media shows Sparano with a shovel and a ball telling his team to bury the memories of their 0-4 start along with the ball.
“Here’s your shovel, here’s your tool and those four games are over with. And we’re about ready to go to work here,” Sparano said. “Everybody understand that?”
The players then took turns shoveling or kicking dirt into the hole to cover up the ball. The gambit’s past success is going to be hard to repeat as this Raiders team has showed little of the talent of those AFC East clubs, but you certainly can’t blame Sparano for trying anything he can to snap the Raiders out of the doldrums they’ve been living in for far too long.
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Posted by Josh Alper on October 7, 2014, 7:46 AM EDT
In 2001, Patriots coach Bill Belichick buried a ball after a 1-3 start in an attempt to get his players to focus on the future rather than the past.
The Pats would lose two more games that year and win the Super Bowl. Jets coach Rex Ryan stole the bit in 2010 after a blowout loss to Belichick’s Patriots and the Jets went on to beat the Pats in New England in the playoffs on their way to the AFC Championship Game.
Raiders interim coach Tony Sparano hopes lightning strikes thrice. A video from NFL Media shows Sparano with a shovel and a ball telling his team to bury the memories of their 0-4 start along with the ball.
“Here’s your shovel, here’s your tool and those four games are over with. And we’re about ready to go to work here,” Sparano said. “Everybody understand that?”
The players then took turns shoveling or kicking dirt into the hole to cover up the ball. The gambit’s past success is going to be hard to repeat as this Raiders team has showed little of the talent of those AFC East clubs, but you certainly can’t blame Sparano for trying anything he can to snap the Raiders out of the doldrums they’ve been living in for far too long.
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